GM says it will stop making medium-duty trucks
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GM says it will stop making medium-duty trucks
General Motors Corp. is giving up on its medium-duty truck business, saying that it will wind down manufacturing by the end of July.
That means GM will stop making the GMC Topkick and Chevrolet Kodiak commercial trucks at its Flint, Mich., Assembly Plant by July 31. The plant employs 2,100 people but also makes Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups.
Company spokesman Jim Hopson said 398 people work on the medium-duty assembly line, and GM is working with the United Auto Workers union to determine what happens to them.
“We’ll continue to try our best to keep the employment levels as high as possible,” he said.
The factory last year made more than 22,000 medium-duty trucks for GM and Isuzu Motors Ltd., and almost 73,000 pickups.
Hopson said GM will work with dealers to sell down the remaining Kodiak and Topkick inventory over the next 18 months or so.
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That means GM will stop making the GMC Topkick and Chevrolet Kodiak commercial trucks at its Flint, Mich., Assembly Plant by July 31. The plant employs 2,100 people but also makes Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups.
Company spokesman Jim Hopson said 398 people work on the medium-duty assembly line, and GM is working with the United Auto Workers union to determine what happens to them.
“We’ll continue to try our best to keep the employment levels as high as possible,” he said.
The factory last year made more than 22,000 medium-duty trucks for GM and Isuzu Motors Ltd., and almost 73,000 pickups.
Hopson said GM will work with dealers to sell down the remaining Kodiak and Topkick inventory over the next 18 months or so.
http://www.theoaklandpress.com/articles ... 625480.txt
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My first 2, the 71 El Camino use to haul my racing go-kart. My 92 Chevy truck use to haul my dirt bike. My F150 has hauled rocks, bricks, etc. its mostly used now as a family vehicle since we can fit everyone in it. I no longer drive it to work, only to meet my car pool buddy who lives 2 miles away. When its my turn to drive, we drive in style in my 96 Corvette, which my the way, gets 32 mpg at 70mph.
These are "Medium Duty" trucks. This means they are often chassis cabs that are then finished into box trucks, small dump trucks, specialty trucks etc.Good, I can't wait till they are all gone
These are not play trucks or wannabe trucks - they have a real purpose. Presumably, the higher fuel consumption that goes with them is because they are doing real work.
A bunch of Americans just lost their jobs. Not a cause for celebration by any measure unless you own a foundry in Shanghai.
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That is the only bad thing.Lmandrake wrote:
A bunch of Americans just lost their jobs. Not a cause for celebration by any measure unless you own a foundry in Shanghai.
US is about capitalizim, and the gov. bailing out these car companies is BS and turning US into Socializim. Bad business caused the big 3 to be where they are now, it is the US way to let them fail, and the US gov stopped that. cratch
Well, if the demand isn't there, there's not much use making them anyhow. They would lose their jobs one way or the other & believe me I'm in a union city. We just lost our entire Ford plant here & if it weren't for the war, Boing was not far behind them.
I'm not joking, I see people riding around in medium duty trucks 4 ft. above everyone else for the heck of it (without even a trailor hitch). But yeah, I didn't realize that the medium duty trucks were exclusively the domain chassis cabs (I thought 1 tons would qualify). That's different.
I'm not joking, I see people riding around in medium duty trucks 4 ft. above everyone else for the heck of it (without even a trailor hitch). But yeah, I didn't realize that the medium duty trucks were exclusively the domain chassis cabs (I thought 1 tons would qualify). That's different.